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VidQue Helps You Find Web Video Worth Watching

Looking for the best videos on the Web? You could just peruse the most popular items at YouTube. Or you could look at a service that aggregates some of the best Web videos into one page, such as VidQue. The service primarily streams videos from YouTube, TED, and Vimeo, and it's the inclusion of the TED lectures that makes the service really worthwhile.

The service uses its own algorithms to search videos that are trending well on their respective sites and on the Web to decide which should be featured on the front page,. Whwn you sign up for an account, you can save the videos you like on your personal video page.

VidQue stands out because it includes videos directly from services like TED and Blip.tv that aren't always supported by other, similar sites. At the same time, the service isn't particularly unique; a number of Web services, including Clicker and PopScreen, aggregate popular videos from around the Web and share them with their users.

By comparison, VidQue isn't particularly special feature-wise, but it does have a larger community than either of those two services, and that community is very active. It doesn't take long to find other users that have similar taste in videos, connect with them, and see what they're watching and adding to their accounts.

What does make VidQue stand out is the way you watch, save, and share videos. When you play a video, you can see who added the video to the service, and which other users have added the video to their accounts. If you like the video, you can add it to your account, and if you hate it, you can mark it as "not worthy."

If you really like the video, you can share the video on Facebook or Twitter, and you can comment on the video to leave your opinion for other members to see. You can also see the source of the video, its description, and other related videos available at VidQue to watch.

Since the service prides itself on showing only the videos worth watching, the only videos you'll find through the site are ones members have added to their accounts. This reminds me a bit of PopScreen, but PopScreen supports more video sources and has more social control over the ratings of the videos.

VidQue's biggest feature is that it gives you a way to aggregate videos from multiple sites, including the TED lectures. Aside from this, it's not particularly special when compared to other video aggregators, but it may be worth a bookmark if you're looking for more options.

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